Best Laptop under Rs 30000 for Gaming Multimedia Office use

These laptops are primarily suitable for students, programmers, engineering graduates and office goers as well as for home users. Best used for doing tasks like web browsing, watching movies, listening to songs, office work & casual gaming. For gaming, video rendering, coding and heavy processor oriented programming higher configurations will be desired.

Some background on the general configuration you should seek, when buying a laptop in the range of Rupees 30000 to 35000.

Processors:

There are three types of processors which you will find commonly in current laptops–

Core i3 6th gen or 7th Gen.

Performance-Wise Core i3 (4th Gen) and A8 are better than other processors and it would be better if you can look for a laptop with Core i3 – a 4th generation which offers good performance coupled with decent battery life. AMD A8 is also good and offer similar performance compared to an i3 but with reduced power efficiency. In simple terms, you will get better battery life with core i3 (4th gen) U processors. (Where U stands for ultra-low power consumption series of Intel processors). Don’t go for A4 or PDC or Dual Core processors in this range of Rs. 30000 they are suited for laptops around 25,000.

General Advice – look for extended warranty offers when buying the laptop, you may be able to negotiate it at very low price and secure your laptop for 3 years. Now Dell usually charge 8-10k for 2-year warranty extension for base models which you can get for 2-4k while making the purchase.

If you are choosing some other laptop than the below recommended you can look for above minimum configuration for reference.

The first laptop on the list of – Best Laptop under Rs 30000 for Gaming Multimedia Office use is :

Option to upgrade RAM – current 4gb is good but can be upgraded to 8gb

Dedicated graphics card 8570M it is not a top of the line card don’t expect it to run a crisis 3 with medium setting even. Yes it is good enough to play latest titles at low to medium settings. You can play less demanding games like counter strike or CS GO or Mafia or Grid 2 with ease. The laptop is capable to play battlefield 2 and 3 but on low to medium settings.

Display is LED back-light which is much better than any TN screen.

AMD A-8 performance is at par with a Core i3 in gaming and other task it may exceed the performance of U series Intel processors in some of the games which use hyper-threading. So a positive to go with this if you want to do casual gaming.

Hard Disk – 1 TB very few laptops in this range offer this much data storage space.

The Bad –

Sound Quality is just normal unlike some high-end laptops , cant expect more in this price range.

Lacks Windows OS – you will have to install a copy of windows if you will purchase a genuine version additional cost of 5-10k depending on version.

Overall a glossy plastic finish may not appeal to some of the buyers.

Battery Life – Up to 2 hours, the power it draws is higher than the Core i-3 (4th Gen) processors.

Overall Rating – 3.8 Star

Verdict – Overall a great deal for Rs. 30,000 – Buy it for the good processor, graphics card and if you want to use it for Casual Gaming. Also for watching videos , internet surfing, video, pics editing and creating videos, listening music & multimedia.

Third one on the Best Laptop under Rs 30000 for Gaming Multimedia Office use is Dell Vostro 3446

Weight is 2.0 kg which is great for movability and makes it the lightest Laptop in this range.

Option to upgrade RAM – current 4gb is good but can be upgraded to 8-GB.

Dedicated graphics card 820M it is not a top of the line card demanding games like counter strike or CS GO or Mafia or grid 2 with ease. On this laptop battlefield 2 and 3 also playable on low/medium settings. Now GT 820M is the latest generation of Mobile graphics card but again it is low powered compared to a 730 M or 630M. It will have approx. 25% performance differential Vs a GT 730-m.

Laptop offers Good battery Life,

The Bad –

Lacks Windows OS – you will have to install a copy of windows if you will purchase a genuine version additional cost of 5-10k depending on version.

Graphics card is not as powerful but still, 820M is faster compared to an AMD 8570 M.

Overall Rating – 4.2 Star

Verdict – Overall a great deal for Rs. 30,000 – Buy it for the good processor, graphics card and if you want to use it for Casual Gaming, watching videos , internet surfing, video and pics editing, creating videos, listening music & multimedia. Would recommend this laptop over other’s as it offers good performance , battery life and light weight.

Compared to HP 15g009AX, Dell Vostro 3446 will be a better deal and in terms of performance. Both will be neck in neck in some gaming titles HP AMD machine can have an advantage and in others Dell powered by Nvidia will be better. In terms of battery life and weight Dell scores hands down. You can choose any of these as per your preference.

The last on the list Best Laptop under Rs 30000 for Gaming Multimedia Office use is Core i5 powered HP Compaq.

4) HP Compaq – HP – 15-s006TU

Brand Name & Model – HP Compaq

Model Name HP – 15-s006TU

Price – 30,600 (price may have increased to 32,000 keep a watch on price on flipkart and Amazon)

Verdict – Overall a great deal for Rs. 30,700, it was priced around 34,000 1 month back. It is one of the cheapest core I 5 laptop, usual starting range is 35,000 plus for core i5 laptops. This laptop for 30,600 or upto 32,000 is the best value for money deal. As far as gaming is concerned it will lag the the dell corei3 +820m by 5-20% in FPS in most gaming titles. GT 820m is good and 30% faster compared to intel HD 4400. For non graphic intensive task like data copy and other processing tasks it will be faster compared to the dell Vostro 3446 and HP 15g009AX.

Buy it for the good processor, if you want to use it for Casual Gaming, watching videos , internet surfing, video and pics editing and creating videos and music & multimedia and in general a faster machine compared to any i3 powered laptop.

1). Acer E5-573-32JT ASPIRE E15

Price Rs. 26,999

The Acer Aspire E5-573 is a basic 15.6 inch display laptop which you can buy for working on office and surfing the web and multimedia. It doesnot come with a dedicated graphics card but uses the Intel onboard HD 5500 graphics.

This trendy device sports an artificial linen shell which gives a nice textured feel. A solid 15.6-inch HD screen and high quality speakers are ideal for watching movies and playing multimedia rich videos ; Active Matrix TFT Colour LCD LED Backlit Display of the laptop provides you life-like images with a resolution of 1,366 x 768 pixels. In terms of performance, the stylish Acer E5 can perform your business tasks pretty smoothly with its decent processing ability. The Acer Aspire E5-573 is powered by a powerful 4 cell li-ion battery that gives you almost 4 hours of run time.

The Acer Aspire E5 is an eye-catching notebook along with a long lasting battery for affordable price. One down side of this notebook is that it comes with quite a lot of bloatware and does not comes with Windows OS. Though you can install Windows 10 or Windows 8 to this laptop yourself. Major Pro is you can easily add more Ram, upto 16 GB on this laptop, which makes it more future proof.

KEY Specifications for Acer E5-573-32JT ASPIRE E15

Model: Acer NX.MVHSI.04

Model Name: E5-573-32JT

Processor: Intel Core i3-5005U Processor

OS – Linux OS

Clock speed: 2 GHz Processor

RAM: 4 GB DDR3

Hard Disk Capacity: 1 TB

Intel HD Graphics 5500

Screen Size: 15.6 inch

Screen resolution: 1366 x 768 Pixels

Display Type: Active Matrix TFT Colour LCD LED Backlight Display

Weight – 2.4 KG

Thickness – 256 MM

2). Lenovo G50-80 Notebook

Price Rs. 30,675

Lenovo G50-80 (80E502Q3IH) offers you DOS operating system along with Core i3 Processor. In order to attract budget laptop buyers, the company has priced this laptop at just Rs. 33,890 in India.

The overall look and design of this laptop is quite remarkable. Lenovo G50-80 (80E502Q3IH) flaunts 15.6 inch screen along with 1 TB hard disk storage and 4 GB RAM. The TN panel of the display is not one of the best but satisfactory. Where the G50-80 scores higher than the competition is the addition of 2 GB Dedicated AMD ATI EXO PRO R5 M330 Graphics card which can enable you to play some games like Battlefield 3 and CS GO easily on this laptop. I can’t promise it can handle the GTA 5 or the Crysis 3 as they are very demanding titles even for most high range laptops.

The performance of the laptop isn’t bad at all for this price range, as it can handle your day to day tasks pretty efficiently and smoothly. The Lenovo G50 stays ahead of the competition with its capability to handle a range of multi-media tasks. It is ideal for students and college goers looking for a bit of extra performance.

KEY Specifications for Lenovo G50-80 (80E502Q3IH) :

Processor: Intel Core i3 5005U Processor (5th Gen)

Hard Disk capacity: 1 TB

Screen size: 15.6 inch

Maximum display resolution: 1366×768 p

RAM: 4 GB DDR3

Battery: Li-Ion

Battery Life: 4 hrs uses 4 Cells

OS – DOS, can use windows 8 and 10.

Weight – 2.5 KG

Thickness – 25 mm

OS : DOS

Concluding Thoughts:

We would recommend these four laptops from a lot of around 100 plus laptops which I analyzed over a period of 2 weeks before giving my recommendation, choose any one of these and you can’t go wrong. If you still have any queries you can visit the page buying advice on our site and can contact me for any personal feedback.